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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) is gradually resuming its operations at the Montr\u00e9al-Trudeau International Airport Wednesday morning, after a strong odour caused disruptions.<\/p>\n
The airport authority first attributed the smell to construction materials and later clarified, saying it came from a varnish from an interior paint job in the U.S. customs area.<\/p>\n
Around 20 U.S.-bound flights have been cancelled as a result. In a social media post, the airport says passengers should continue to expect delays. It suggests they check their flight status with their airlines before heading out.<\/p>\n
The USCBP suspended its operations around 8 a.m., but some passengers say they were left in the dark until much later.<\/p>\n
Umar Chaudry, who was hoping to catch a flight home, says it smells like “exhaust” inside the airport, likening it to the odour that lingers after someone starts a car inside a garage.<\/p>\n
“The lines are not moving in there at all,” he said. “There’s no feedback for anything. So, it’s really unsettling not to know what’s going on.”<\/p>\n
Pending his flight cancellation, he says he looked into driving to New York, but had no luck finding a rental car.<\/p>\n
Christine Searle reports a similar experience. <\/p>\n
“I’ve never experienced this lack of information other than once a couple of years ago,” she said, adding she’s lucky her flight was delayed as opposed to cancelled.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the airport said it increased ventilation in the area earlier in the morning.<\/p>\n
They add that the Montreal fire department conducted an inspection and found that the situation did not pose a health risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-834180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}